Ethics in Advanced Robotics Article Presentatio

Marmara University,
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Spring 2020, EEE7000 – Seminar
RESEARCH ETHICS
F. OPERTO, "ETHICS IN ADVANCED ROBOTICS," IN IEEE
ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE, VOL.18, NO. 1, PP.
72- 78, MARCH 2011.
Mehmet Çağrı Aksoy
Presentation 06/03/2020

What is “Ethics”?
Moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the
conducting of an activity.
Friday, March 6, 2020
F. OPERTO, "ETHICS IN ADVANCED ROBOTICS," IN IEEEROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE,
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Roboethics
Robot ethics, sometimes known by the short expression "roboethics",
concerns ethical problems that occur with robots, such as whether robots pose
a threat to humans in the long or short run,
whether some uses of robots are problematic (such as in healthcare or as 'killer
robots' in war), and how robots should be designed such as they act 'ethically'
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Roboethics
Roboethics was originally conceived as human-responsibility ethics.
The roboticists and ethicists that contributed to their creation highlighted the following aspects:
Problems regarding robot autonomy
Problems related to warfare applications
Problems in human–robot relations (dependence, privacy, robot appearance, and potential
confusion between natural and artificial) IMPORTANT
Digital divide (for nations, genders, and ages) l ethical dimension of technology.
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Roboethics
Roboethics is not artifical ethics and not even the regulatory system of
dependability and safety.
Roboethics indicated that the individual and society may intervene upstream on
the direction of robotics and its products.
The new applied ethics, called roboethics, was put forward in 2001/2002, and
publicly discussed in 2004 during the First International Symposium on
Roboethics.
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Roboethics Analysis
We can apply Roboethics in the following cases:
Human Dignity and privacy
Preservation of human identity and transhuman
Liability and responsibility issues
Psychological effects
Cost-benefit analysis
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Ethics in Complex technological Societies
Traditionally, ethics is the philosophical or theological subject that studies
human behavior and assessment criteria for human behaviors and choices.
Modern ethics have developed from various points of view along classical
philosophy.
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Robot Sophie
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https://illvit.no/teknologi/kunstig-intelligens/na-skal-roboter-
ga-og-se-ut-som-mennesker
The fact that robot Sophie has such
advanced features and is increasingly
human-like behavior worries people about
the effect of ethics.
On the other hand, with the development
of AI technologies, various theft events
occurred as a result of AI mimicking people
and deceiving some people in phone calls.

A problem
In our case, the question is:
Who is responsible for any damage that may be caused by an autonomous robot?
Is it the designer, manufacturer, programmer, or final user?
Often, it will be difficult to obtain easy answers to this question.
As already discussed, roboethics has adopted the principles established by the Charter of
Human Rights and the Lisbon Treaty. However, these certainly do not satisfy the realm or depth
of the ethical debate
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Our goal
For the purpose of this article (to analyze the human–robot relationship), we shall consider the
two main meanings of the term responsibility:
1) the analysis of the identity of the agent of the cause of certain actions and their effects
(utilitarianism or consequentialism or teleologism)
2) an expression of motivations that leads an agent to act in a certain way (deontological ethics
or Kantian ethics), according to which the individual assesses the consequences of his or her
actions.
In the last century, we know that the questions “What authority and what set of moral
rules am I obliged to be accountable to? State law? God?” forced many answers
(utilitarian or deontological) to a crisis point.
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Morality
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According to this position, morality and immorality constitute a gradual continuum: such is the
case for children, which, in our society, are not deemed to be fully responsible for their actions
or the disabled [15], [16].
As they are quasi-moral agents, robots are also subject to ethical behavior, equipped with some
rights of their own.
[15] P. M. Asaro, “What should we want from a robot ethic?,” in Ethics and Robotics, M. Capurro and M. Nagenborg, Eds. Heidelberg: IOS Press, 2009, pp. 1–11.
[16] W. Wallach and C. Allen, Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong. Oxford, New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2009.
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Conclusion
Using science and our ability to compare, we must define robot ethics and draw its limits. What
will we hold the robots responsible for?
Will they have moral rules like us? With the increasing technology, artificial intelligence
technologies will make robots smart. In this case, we will need to prepare new laws.
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Q&A
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